• When asked if she thought her life was tough, she thought for a second.

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  • And I thought about it for a second, you know, because I knew most of the guys I knew who dealt, they had nice clothes, you know, they had pagers, they had all these things that I really wanted at the time.

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  • But if the home fans thought they were in for a second-half stroll Walsall had other ideas.

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  • Angela, a girl in a wheelchair, raised her hand without a second thought when a call for volunteers went out, and was pushed forward by a family member.

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  • For a second I thought I recognized her.

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  • For a second I thought my brother, who had punched every fucking thing that had ever crossed him boys, girls, men, women, viejos, white boys, morenos, Boricuas, Filipinos, chinos, teachers, policemen but had never in his life put his hand on my mother, was going to pop her.

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  • The former were a little bit riskier than the latter, but if you could stand it, the best thing is to put as much of your hard-earned cash into good, solid American companies and leave it there for a long time and not give it a second thought.

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  • For a split second I thought 'oh no' but he kept calm and his reaction was wonderful.

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  • For a second, he thought he should get off the counter, take off his suit, and eat his dinner quietly, because the truth was he was very hungry.

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  • Just this morning I turned on my car in the driveway (the car I lent to a 17-year-old African-born youth last night so he could drive with other African-born youths to a Korean take-out chicken place called Mo Betta Wings) and an X-rated hip-hop song blasted with such explosive force from the radio that, for a second, I thought I'd been in an accident.

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  • No proof was offered (indeed some people thought this the work of the authorities, stoking up support for a second campaign in Chechnya), but most Russians were outraged.

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  • With NaNoWriMo well underway and writers around the globe hammering away at their keyboards like crazed woodpeckers trying to get at that tasty grub hidden just out of sight, I thought it might be a good idea to take a step back for a second.

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  • And, for a spell in the second period against Hearts, he thought it had arrived.

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  • When I hold my Father's medals, or visit him where he rests at Fort Rosecrans, and see row after row after row of white crosses, I weep for this greatest generation, who sacrificed everything, without a second thought, to give us freedom.

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  • When the Spaniard had asked for the number, the Frenchman had given it to him without a second thought.

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  • The match was very evenly poised but 10 minutes into the second half - just after Howlett had seen what he thought was a try disallowed for a forward pass - came what looked likely to be a decisive moment.

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  • Wigan thought they had sealed victory when Liam Farrell found a way through 20 minutes into the second half, only for it to be chalked off for obstruction by the video referee.

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  • For decades, the journalistic mindset believed in the first, thought the second would kill the first and never cared a lick about the third.

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